# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S371
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Miscellaneous Matters , - air

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“of the National Advisory Emergency
Planning: Council

When the world is ‘at its worst, the Church must be at its
The world background today is dark and depressing. War
nearly covers the whole earth than ever before. Men are
ghtered in numbers that stagger comprehension. Human
life is cheaper than it has been for centuries.
‘ar-Born . The standard of living is being pushed’ down
‘ommittee again. Moral standards have been replaced by
. humanistic and pagan ideologies. The road
: to God, which many prophesied would be teeming with
feat humanity because of sufferings brought about by the
ar, has only occasional travelers. There has been no great influx
to" ‘the churches. Nor has there been any real revival in the
ches themselves. Selfishness, greed, and godlessness are on
e increase and have brought about a hopelessness and despair
‘as has seldom confronted mankind.
*-Just for suchya time as this has the Missouri Synod been —
ed to work in the Kingdom. The currents of life and thought in
topsy-turvy world must receive the attention of the Church.
ditions in the world affect every phase of church life. The
aos and the shifting, seething restlessness of the world make
ep impacts upon the thinking: the life, and the work of the
ch. All this ‘creates problems and difficulties which, though
necessarily new, demand speed, decision, and a true sense of
rection on the part of our Church.
‘Soon after Pearl Harbor it became evident that many of
these unprecedented situations confronting the life and work of
the Church incident to the war were everybody's concern in
general, but nobody’s business in particular. To meet this emer-
gency the President of Synod appointed the

. National Advisory Emergency Planning Council —
The functions of this committee are:

1) To seek out those problems confronting the Church in
these abnormal and changing world conditions in which
the Church lives today, and such problems and questions
_as always confront the Church but are aggravated and
become critical in times like these.

2) To study, analyze, and diagnose such problems and: to
‘ plan‘and to develop ‘solutions for them. _